Yes, it's intentional. Like that river. And if you look closely there's a skull shaped mountain. Made the roads for it, all of them. When I created them I considered stuff like avoiding mountains, forests, hills and everything. I hope. I won't upload it, too little of a change, just an update. And a question: anybody has a font which doesn't look like one big pixel with the size's 4-5? Because that's what I'm using righ now and it does look like crap.
The best fonts for that size are the sans serif ones...the ones like Arial and Comic Sans as they are the most legible. However, I often go down to 3 pts with some scripty fonts so it's basically a trial and error thing to see what you like best. PPI is also a factor in pt size (digitally) so 3 pts on 72 ppi is one thing but 3 pts on 300 ppi is quite another.
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I'll also throw in Tahoma & Verdana as possible fonts to try...
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Keep in mind Pixel size is not the same as Point size.
I never realyl got the hang of how to work with points, so I always switch out to pixels and do it that way. That having been said, Arial and Verdana are decent ones for tiny sizes. Times new roman is decent, but you don't want to go under 8 pixels (10 is better).
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Ugh! Times new roman, the most over-used font except for Comic Sans
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Goddamit. Anyone noticed how many towns cities and so on there is on that map?! That's gonna take years... Ah hell with it.
Thanks for advice, I'm going to use rather diverse set of fonts, but for now I have verdana for the smallest towns (all hail legible 2 pt), Morris Roman (a bit fantasy, but still legible) for the cities, something which is labeled as Microsoft Uighur (but it can't be it) and looks a little bit like times new roman for capitals. Thinking about sans serif for lands.
What do you think of themed fonts? Creepy font kinds for "places of interest" or some dangerous spots on the ocean (lost islands maybe?), "chiller" font?
http://www.fontstock.net/10230/chiller.html
I haven't checked but the thing about the Uighur font is that it is actually activated properly through one of the specialist language options. I have Vista and I've got Jewish, Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, Turkic and a bunch of "other language" fonts. One of the ones I like is the jewish font Narkisim. Very nice little font.
If you're thinking of the "horror movie" chiller... it's a touch cliched. Also it does kind of scream "trashy".
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Got it. Not using that font. Here's how it looks, after naming all the cities and towns and all, every forest, some mountains and so on.
One question: how should I name forts? Like fort something or? Because I really have no idea. And there is a reason for such chaotic naming (that land is over 3500 years old, some names survived for more than a few hundred years, some for less than a hundred, some for all that time).
For me, this is the crucial map-creation time, soo... Any thoughts? Tips? Anything?
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Put a compass and a scale on it and call it done. Looks good to me, I like Smallfontville.
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